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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
THE SECOND WIFE QUESTION
The Effort of a First Wife to Make Sure of
Having No Successor.

Baltimore American.
A case of decided interest to men generally,
and to married men particularly, comes from
Montana Territory. It gives the details Of an at
tempt to settle the second wife problem. The
wife was on her death-bed. One day she made a
peculiar request of one of the attend
ants. She asked for Ratchet. In order to
humor her within the Ratchet procured
for her. and she threw it careessy the bed.
Two days before she died she summoned her hus-
band. He knelt in tears and, like the devoted
sympathy. The dying wife babe him farewell
and conjured him to marry again. On
this point. however, Griswoid was not positive,
for he expected to live a long time; and he prob
ably felt that the most effective way to drown
old grief was to submerge 1t in new love. Con-
seQuently he was not prompt in giving promise,
and when he hesitated SO long Mrs Griswold
suddenly drew the natchst from under the COW
ering and dealt the unsuspecting man blow in
one eye destroying its vision and disfguring
him for life. Forty eight hours afterward the
wounded man was a widower.
We cannot, of course, indorse the savage
methods of Mrs. Griswold; but it can be said in
mitigation of her assault on her beloved hus band
that she was i'll. and, furthermore, that if there
is any one question that woman feels more
deeply upon than anything else. it is that ter
rlole problem of second wife. To think that
she, dead buried, and with beautiful epitaph
upon her tombstone, should be supplanted in
the husbands affections by some unknown
woman, and that her portrait Fshould be taken
out of the parlor and carried up into the garrett.
is rather too much for any woman to bear with
eQuanimty. Probably this question has caused
more heart burnings, has given rise to more little
quarrels. and has been a bigger bugoear general
ly than all the spring honnets and silk dresses
of life time. Mrs. Griswold staggered under
the weight of it, and when her husband hesl-
tated to come to time with promise to sign a
prohibition marriage pledge, she swiftly dealt
the blow that destroyed his facial beauty for
evermore. We only hope that the record
ing angel did not judge the poor wife too harsh
~. and give the damaged widower the
full measure of our sympathy.
But wait. Perhaps need not waste that
sympathy. Griswold acquired shining glass
eye, and a year ago he was married to his
second wife. Nothing but death keep q
man out Of matrimony when his heart is turned
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MINOR MATTERS.
Allegations of Fraud in Connection with
Certain Land SURVEYS.

Allegations of Fraud in Connection with
Certain Land Surveys.
WASHINGTON, July 20.-The Secretary of the
Interior has directed Land Commissioner Sparks
to issue patents to the State of Minnesota for
certain swamp and overlooked lands in Duluth,
Mimi, land district which the latter had sus-
pended because of the ''mauy allegations of
gross errors and frauds" The Secretary states
that no evidence supporting these charges has
been furnished except to Townships 81 and
S. The surveyor of these townships
eertifies that he does not believe that his field
notes were ever turned over the surveyor
general, but that false and FRAUDULENT ones were
turned over instead. The surveyor further
states that the land represented swamp is the
only valuable land in these townships. The Sec
rotary is of the opinion that this evidence is suf-
fcient to warrant investigation which he directs
TO be made at once pending the issue of patents
20 the lands in these townships.
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The Latest Literary Craze.
delphia Call.


"Oh, dear me, wonder what the next silly
fad will be over in Boston, said lady the 9TH
er day 81 ran over last week to friend,
and came home profoundly impressed with my
ignorance. They have discarded Browning and
Shelley and have taken up Russian literature.
You arc expected to know all about Tostoi.
Gogol, Stepniak, and other political and literary
scholars. Your table must be strswn with pho
tographic views of every place of note in Mos.
COW, St. Petersburg, etc. The conversation for
the winter is expected to be rich in Russian bor
mots and epigrams Ny friend is sick trying to
keep abreast with all this stuff. She hasn't
much mind, aud I'm afraid she'll lose the little
she has"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
Brief Mention.

Ex-Mayor James H. Mott, of Rock Island, died
on Tuesday, aged sixty-one years.
This week several prairie fires occurred about
Smthboro and burned grain in the stack and de-
dollars.
A special election has been ordered in Clinton
to ascertain whether or not the city shall issue
bonds for supplying the town with system Of
water-works. The election will be held next
Monday.
On Aug. boring for natural gas will begin at
Lincoln. as a company was organized some time
ago with capital stock Of So, 900. The follow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
A Strike Quickly Ended.

New YORK. July 20.-The effects of the re-
cent strike on the Brooklyn elevated railroad
had all disappeared yesterday, and the trains
were run the old schedule time OF the sew
enty men who quit work after giving the COM
pany hours notice, sixty eight. Col Martin
says, have filed application for reinstatement
Three of them were taken back yesterday.
These men say Chairman j. Wright, of the
strikers committee, misIed them at the begin
ming of the trouble. They feel bitter against
the Knights of Labor to whom mainly they at
tribute their defeat.
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when She Cares for an Old Man.


/ asked her il it possible for q young
woman to care for man much older than her
self Eyes," she replied, 'if man is honorable
and occupies good position in the world if he
is kind, considerable and attentive; If he can take
of wife and is affectionate to her, the hus-
band commands the respect of the wife. and
upon this foundation the structure of a substan-
tial and lasting love is builded."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
Thresher Burned by an Incendiary.

Special to the IndiaCapOlis Journal
NORTH MANCHESTER, July 20.-The threshing
machine owned and operated by Calvin Hull,
was burned last night The machine was stand
ing alone in open field The work
doubtedy that of incendiary Loss, 400.
This is the second thresher that has been burned
i n this township within the past few days.
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.Iealouay and Murder.

NEW YORK July 20.--During fit of jealousy,
this evening, VIM. Fl. Loden, carpenter of LOG
East One hundred-and-ninth street shot and
severely wounded his wife and her mother,
temple, inhicting a fatal wound Loden
died In the Presbyterian Hospital to- MI CHIT. Mrs.
Wright will probably die before morning, but
Mrs. Loden will recover.
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year-old colored boy instantly. and badly scalded
two other men. The force of the explosion sent
the engine forward fully one hundred feet. turn
ing it over and over in it's course until all the
steam had escaped. A horse which stood on its
path was also killed. Mrs. Strand and six
children survive the deceased husband and
father
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Fatal ExnIosian-

NEWARK, Del. July 2O-The boiler of a
threshing machine exploded this afternoon on
the farm of Edward Strand, about three miles
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
ILLINOIS.
A Timer Badly Bruised aud Crippled by 9
Fall from a Roof.

Timer Badly Bruised aud Crippled by q
Fall from a Roof.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
MARSHALL, July 20-Henry Kalb, timer
and ironsmith in the employ of d. Cole g. Co.
hardware dealers, met with remarkable acct
dent Yesterday afternoon. While engaged in
putting Russia-iron roof on barn belonging
to Chris Schad, farmer living few miles
southwest of the city. he lost his footing, and
slipped rapidly downward until the cave Of the
roof was reached, when, very fortunately as he
supposed. he managed to plant both feet on the
ladder which he had used to gain the roof. But
the ladder was near the perpendicular that
Kalb's weight too much for it. and it fell
over backward. carrying him with it, ne de-
scribing the of a circle of which
the ladder tie radius The ladder fell on
him as he touched the ground. bruisng him ter
ribly One leg was broken, ankle sprained,
and there were severe bruises all over his body.
His injuries reported fatal at first but this
morning ne was in a fair way to recover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21

PALESTINE, July 20-A terrible tragedy &C.
Cured about twenty miles north OF here, on
the Wabash river, yesterday. Enoch Bridewell
and Thomas j. Price, neighboring farmers, en-
gagged in quarrel over broken wagon, when
Bridewell tried to pierce Price with pitchfork.
The latter took the fork from Bridewell and
laid 1t aside. EDraged at this, Bridewell seized
a large iron bolt and renewed the attack, where
upon Price picked up fence picket and struck
Bridewell over the head, killing him. No ar
rests have yet been made, and it is tho general
opinion that Price was justified in defending
himself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21

NEW YORK, July 20.-The union 'Iongshore-
men are again in the ascendant and have given
notice that they want the old rate of wages for
night and work done Sunday and other
holidays Prev ious to the great strike of last
winter, when Acknowledgement struck out of SYM
pathy with the coal-heavers and also to help out
the striking 'longshoremen of the Old Dominion
Steam ship Compan y, most Of them were getting
between thirty and forty cents hour for day
work and sixty cents for night work. but when
the great strike was lost and they applied for
work the piers, they found that the steamship
companies were paying the new hands only
forty five cents for night-work, and they were
told that they could get any more. The
companies also refused to discharge the new
hands and offered employment only to those old
hands for VI bonn vacancies could be found The
longshorerden accepted the inc vitabls and grad
ually the companies discharged the green hands
who were taken during the strike and put old
in their places. because they could get
more work out of them in a given time. In
course of time, all, nearly all, of the old
hands were at work again, and they decided to
make an effort to get their old rates. Yesterday
their officers published notice to ship owners.
stevedores and captains, demanding sixty cents
per hour for nght-work and work on legal holt
days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
INDIANAAND ILLINOIS NEWS
A Discovery that Will Have an Impor-
tant Bearing on Amer Green's Case.
A White Woman Slabs and Kills Colored
Sister-''Doctor" Mosely Arrested-Fatal
Fight Between Farmers-Gleanings.
INDIANA.
Physicians Declare that the Corpse at Lafay-
cite is Not That of LuelIa Mabbitt.

Physicians Declare that the Corpse at Lafay-
cite is Not That of LuelIa Mabbitt.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE. July 20.-A sensation was caused
this afternoon, when it was discovered that the
head belonging to the body supposed to be that
of Luela Mabbitt, the girl who disappeared
from Cass county with Am er Green, last August,
missing, having been removed from the
vault. The head was regarded the most i'm
portant evidence in identifying the remains. 1t
transpired that William Mabbitt father of the
missing girl, gave a Lafayette dentist written
order for the head, and that it was on exhibition
at Maxinkuckee at the State Dental Associa-
ton meeting 1t was examined there and pro-
nounced by all present to be the head OF male
person over forty-ive years old. The Mabhitt
girl was twenty-three The skull is not now
with the body.
Colored Woman Killed by White Woman.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
SUMMITvILLE, July 20-Sarah Dawson,
colored woman. was stabbed and killed, this
evening, at the Cartright Hotel, by Nancy Gun
ningham, white. It was the result of some re-
marks made by both women some days ago. Mrs.
Dawson was delivering washing, and stopped at
the hotel on an errand, where Mrs Cunning
ham was working and she threw an iron at her;
then she to the kitchen, returning with a
knife eighteen inches long. and stabbed her
three times in the stomach. Mrs. Dawson
reached the sidewalk before she fell. She died in
thirty minutes. Mrs. Dawson was highly re-
gpected colored lady.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21

T-Trace of rain.
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Great Western Celebration.

The colored people of Northwest
Missouri and Kansas, are preparing for q
great western celebration in Forest Park
Ottawa, Kan, August 4th.
Arrangements are completed whereby
excursions will run from all the princi-
pal points in Northwest Missouri and
Kansas
Hon. Jno. NJ. Langston, ex-minister to
Hayt, Congressman Robert Smalls of
South Carolina, and Col Jno. NJ Brown
of Topeka, will be the orators of the day.
Many grand inducements to guarantee
IL TO be the grandest celebration ever
heidi in the west among the colored peo-
pie Everybody come. See bills next
Thursday
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North Lawrence, Kan, July IS, 81.
Rev. P. w. Barker:-Dear broth
er, please announce your coming to
our Baptist meeting July 31st, on
the fifth Sabbath of this month and
send me few copies of the Banner.
We are expecting large attendance.
If you come on Saturday, come to
274 Maryland street, to my house.
Yours in Christ,
w. H. Stewart.
?. S. The meeting will be under
the auspices of the North Lawrence
First Baptist church.
", FL. Stewart. pastor.
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HYMN

What can wash away my stain?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
CHORUS.
Oh, precious is the flow,
That makes me white as snow:
No other fount | know.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this I see
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
For my pardon this my plea
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Nothing can for sin atone
Nothing but the blood of Jesus:
Naught of good that l have done
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Glory glory. thus I sing
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
All my praise for this bring
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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Thomas; twelve persons burned TO
death, forty injured.
SATURDAY, JULY Is.
a warehouse in New York, stored
with valuable property, destroyed.
Loss thought to be 81 900. 900. Several
tremen badly injured. - Mrs.
John A. Logan quite seriously hurt
at Carbondale, Ill.---The envelope
makers combine to raise the price of
envelopes - Weather very warm.
Thermometer registers 81 at St. Paul.
Mimi; 81 at Pittsburg, Pa; 81 in
southern Mich; 102 in Iowa; 102 in
Wheeling, West Virginia; 96 in To-
peka, Kan.
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Rossville, Kans., July 10Th.

Dear Editor please allow space in
your excellent BANNER to announce
there will be grand celebration Of
the Emancipation held at st. Mary's
Kansas, Monday, August 1st for the
benefit of the FIRST Baptist church at
St. Marys. Speakers for the day:
Col. John NJ. Brown, Ex. Auditor
McCabe, Rev. P. w. Barker, Tope-
ka; Rev. 4. Boswell, Rev. Johnnie
Richie, Atchison; Rev. J. II. Thomp-
son, Rossville. Entertainment in the
evening for the benefit of the church.
Rev. j. H, Thompson, general
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4 colored mans state convention
will convene August 10th, in To-
peka, and each community is re-
quested to send at least one delegate
to represent them. And all leading
men (colored) are requested to at
tend.
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Crushed by a Church Bell.

Louisville, Ky, July 18th. at a
fire in the Methodist church, at
Bowling Green, Fireman Wells was
killed by the bell falling on his
head. The church was DESTROYED but
the loss is small.
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u. 3. Garrett.

At I. P. rail road crossing corner
c and Polk street, North Topeka.
has 200 acres of land for gale / 1-2
miles north east of William town
Douglas Co., Kan. Also $50 acres
near Baldwin City II miles south
east of Lawrence, Kan, also Topeka
property. Will attend to COLLECTING
I. 5. claims, bounty and pensions.
send in your claims at once.
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Washington Letter.

y Dear Sir:-Neither the presiden
q nor your correspondent are at tn
Capital this week and the government
at Washington, will have to ge
e along the best it can. The capita
city became too hot for me, and
came to this usually breezy place
only to find that the sun had antici,
pated my arrival. I know of but one
f hotter place, and Mr.. Ingersol denies
the existence of that, than the board
walk along the beach of Atlantic
City, when the wind is still on sea-
ward. But when the wind is from the
sea, as it is today, and you take your
ease on the veranda Of the hotel. or
loll on the beach and watch the 1.-the
limbed youth and maidens in their
bathing costumes, life seems worth
living even in July, and New Jersey
contrary to common prediudice.
good for something.
Of the many sea side resorts ex-
tending from Long Branch to Cape
May, Atlantic City is the largest
and most popular. It was founded in
lot Of crude wooden cottages and
boarding houses for denizens of the
Quaker City who were daring enough
to astonish their bodies with sea
bath, their children have grown up
to love this use Of water, and with
more money and leisure than their
fathers had, built splendid cottages
and hotels which are frequented by
guests from Los Angeles to Boston.
Those who suppose Atlantic City is
merely summer resort will be sur
prised to see steam heating apparatus
N the large hotels. The height of the |
season here, | am told, is in February
md March. Society comes from =
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington s
md New York, to recuperate from
he rack and drudgery Of ostentatious '
ife; and to enjoy the winter air that /
las been tempered through the Gulf
stream with a dash of the tropics.
>ut the occasional land breeze so q
'ahara-like in summer is freezing :,
old in the winter, hence the neces- r.
lty Of steam heating in order that II
le Lenten guest may have other ri
ian Ienten entertainments. e
What voluptuous nomads we Amer W
ans are growing to be. The women al
nd men Of wealth are more at home to
most any where than under their al
yn roof tree. They fit from Canada tn
Florida, from New York to Paris.
he palace car and trans atlantic
are their vehicles. The ar
,tel is their home. The son of toll. m
he is called in the parlance of fo
strikes from city to city wi
aveling with greater state and com pc
TT than was known to kings and he
nperors fifty years ago. We are tt
aking rapid strides whittier? 1t w
'uld be pessimistic to suggest the ro
ace abolished BY Ingersol. But sal
ough there be no such place in our tio
light American Ingersolian lexicon. bu
is still well to ask whittier? ve
Tens of thousands of these "sons to
toll, their wives and children. inc
me here in excursions every week
d spend money in way that the
althy Of the old world would call an,
travagant. Their amusements and not
shines are low. Beer gardens. bee
nstrel shows, dancing halls with yor
-roundings and influences extreme tha
bad. IN
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Aunt Susan's Suggestions to a
Fretful Wife.

| CreGIu1 W1Ie.
chester" exclaimed Aunt Susan
ceaslng her rocking and knitting, an,
sitting upright; "do you know wha
your husband will do when YOU ar
dead?"
"What do you mean?" was til,
startled reply.
"He will marry the sweetest tenn
pered girl he can find"
"Oh, anntie-" Hester began.
Don't interrupt me until I've
finished, said Aunt Susan, leaning
back and taking up her knitting.
"She may not be as good house
keeper as you are-in fact, I think
not. But she will be good'natured.
She may not even love him as we'll
,,, S00" II"
'"i9u, "u-,
,.T, "ny' aun'le-
"' lTn dill continued Aunt
O'"' Livery uay you 1--we you
are making your husband more and
"''n 'na' sooo na1ured
ln"y '"Ae your place
'onl0 pay' Al'sr Olr' ana Mrs Har
.9UD i0l' you 'ne o'ner night the
my 80, len"iA n0 maoe ABOUT them,
'a'' s1on p"0 l' sweet woman
.,T, ""N.l
nat Ism { all composedly con
lnueo Aunt Susan To-day your
uS1"H" "a was nat way across the
'''''0i no0i' 0rlngng you the first
~ p0"OHeS' anu al you dld was to
'oN On anu say There, Will, just
7e your tracks on my clean tOorl |
ont have my floor all tracked up
0ine men would have thrown the
7"0ne' ou' oi the window. Today
>" Sofe"eo up your face when he
SSed you, because his moustache
as damp and said; 1 never want
u to KISS me again. When he
lPueS anything you tell him not to
III j, 1T When he lifts anything you
Il MN not to break it. From morn
9 until night your sharp voice is |
lg'ns 3 out complaining and fault {
'un9' ana last winter, when you
re SICK you scolded him about his !
owing the pump to freeze, and ]
TX no notice when he said: i was 80
xlous about you that | did NOT
nR 'nR OF the pump freezing" y
Du' m auntle- P
1earken' child The strongest IL
= no'' Ihteillgent OF them care
re l0r "a Woman'S tenderness than =
any y'ning else In the world, and
'nou' u 'nls the cleverest and most =
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THE WESTERN BAPTIST an EIGHT
page weekly paper. will be sent to
any new subscriber until January.
1855 for 40 cents. Address Holt 1
vall, llt East 7th street, Topeka,
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Geo. v. Watson,
Cor. 9th & Kan. Ave.

Has property for sale in the fol
lowing additions: Sunny Side,
Orchard, Pierce's, Walnut Grove,
OFT and Tewksburry's, Edwards
Tract, Quinton Heights. West End
and Arlington Heights, also vacant
lots and Improved property in all
parts of the city. The attention of
the colored people is especially called
to Forest addition, North Topeka.
Call and examine plats.